Every week

• 126

  Twenty-Three Finance Seats, And Sixty-One Around The Board TableFinance seats

  Chikara Intelligence recorded 126 executive moves in the week to 30 August, 23 of them finance seats. Board and advisory took 61. Eleven moves carried an interim or acting title, and eight of those arrived at an organisation that lost someone the same week.

  23–30 August 2026

• 103

  More Than Half Of The Week's Seats Were Around The TableBoard & non-executive

  Chikara Intelligence recorded 103 executive moves across the four working days to 21 August, and 55 of them were board or advisory seats. A further 25 were finance seats, 13 of those at chief financial officer level.

  18–21 August 2026

• 130

  Three Interims, Three Same-Week ExitsInterim & unplanned exits

  Four appointments in the window were interim, and three of the four sat at an organisation that had recorded the matching departure inside the same seven days: an unplanned exit, with a search likely forming behind it.

  10–17 August 2026

• 161

  The Furthest Forward-Dated Move Was 238 Days Out

  Fifty-one of the week's 103 appointments arrived with compensation attached, and 19 organisations recorded both an exit and an arrival in the same seven days. The furthest forward-dated move, a finance appointment, was recorded 238 days ahead of its effective date.

  3–10 August 2026

• 136

  35 Moves Recorded Before They Happened

  Seventy of the week's 136 executive moves were on the system on or before the day they took effect, with 35 of those recorded before the move itself had happened.

  28 July – 4 August 2026